Columbia Children's Theatre's Concert Series Continues with BACKWARDS BROADWAY

Join some of your favorite performers from Columbia Children's Theatre (CCT) and around town for an evening of gender-bending Broadway belting as CCT presents the next installment in the organization's popular concert series, Backwards Broadway. Showtime is 7:00 pm Friday, January 13. Tickets are $15.00 for adults and $10.00 for high school and college students and can be purchased securely online at www.columbiachildrenstheatre.com or at the door beginning one half hour before show time. CCT is located at 3400 Forest Drive on the 2nd level of Richland Mall. A cash bar and light hors d'oeuvres will be provided.

Conceived and directed by CCT Artistic Associate and teaching artist Julian Deleon, Backwards Broadway features a cast of 14 of the area's best singers. The first act features each singer performing songs originally written for and performed by an actor of the opposite gender. Once the singers discover they've been given the wrong music, act 2 proceeds with "historically gender-correct" selections. The cast includes: Karly Minacapelli, Courtney Reasoner, Brandi Smith, Jackie Rowe, Katrina Blanding, Evelyn Clary, Paul Lindley II, Anthony Harvey, Julian Deleon, Jeremy Reasoner, Jerry Stevenson and Kendrick Marion.

The evening will include music from Camelot, Shrek the Musical, Hairspray, Dreamgirls, Cinderella, Big River, Chess and yes, evenHamilton. Proceeds from the event will go directly to benefit CCT's educational outreach mission and help to underwrite discounted tickets for under-served communities.

Columbia Children's Theatre is a professional resident not-for-profit theatre dedicated to providing quality live theatre experiences for families and young audiences, and is supported in part by the City of Forest Acres, The Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties and the South Carolina Arts Commission, which receives funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Photo Credit: Kaitlyn Fuller